HURTLED TO DEATH
Enemy Fighter Victim Of
British Bomber.
GUNNER'S LIGHTNING SUCCESS. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 3. An Air Ministry bulletin contains details of the shooting down by the rear gunner of a Hudson Coastal Command aircraft of a Messerschmitt 109 fighter over Holland to-day.
The first the pilot, navigator and wireless operator in the front of the Hudson knew of the gunner's success was when they saw a flaming and smoking fighter pass underneath them and go spinning to earth. The Hudson had just carried out a bombing attack on a target near Amsterdam, where a column of smoke had shot up as the aircraft flew off.
The Messerechmitt appeared a few moments later and manoeuvred into position for an attack. Before it could start its dive it had fallen a victim to the Hudson's gunner.
Another Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command to-day bombed an aerodrome and hangars on Eexl Island, in Holland. v
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 7
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